Re: Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture designer?

In article <vcgpqt$gndp$1@dont-email.me>, david.brown@hesbynett.no (David
Brown) wrote:

Even a complete amateur can notice time mismatches of 10 ms in a
musical context, so for a professional this does not surprise me. 
I don't know of any human endeavour that requires lower latency or
more precise timing than music.

A friend used to work on set-top boxes, with fairly slow hardware. They
had demonstrations of two different ways of handling inability to keep up
with the data stream:

- Keeping the picture on schedule, and dropping a few milliseconds
  of sound.
- Dropping a frame of the picture, and keeping the sound on-track.

Potential customers always thought they wanted the first approach, until
they watched the demos. Human vision fakes a lot of what we "see" at the
best of times, bit hearing is more sensitive to glitches.

John